BECAUSE READING IS THE BEST WAY TO EXPAND YOUR VOCABULARY
V = video report
My Pick of the Week
What NOT to do in a disaster
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170711-what-not-to-do-in-a-disaster
WORLD NEWS
Tales from the new Silk Road
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/new_silk_road
The human impact of Turkey’s purges
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38093311
FRANCE & Europe
V Trump and Macron: An unlikely friendship is born
(including INTERACTIVE section: What has President Trump said about your country?)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40613719
V Paris swimming ban lifted
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-40649714/paris-swimming-ban-lifted
UK, USA & Canada
V Republican attempts to replace Obamacare fail (For the usual Republican reasons)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40639909
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
The metaphors that shape women’s lives
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170718-the-metaphors-that-shape-womens-lives
HEALTH
Let Obamacare fail – Trump’s new “plan”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40646625
Meet the ‘doctors’ who will talk to you whenever you like (chatbox docs)
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40629742
Zion Harvey: Double hand transplant boy plays baseball
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40643019
OTHER SITES
YouTube: Andy Serkis as Gollum reads Trump’s tweets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64mWOoj68qo
Sport
Spain’s La Vuelta cycle race changes ‘sexist’ hostess role (The female hostesses often pose by kissing the winner, and then get sprayed with Champagne. Freudian?)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40642140
EDUCATION & FAMILY
Grandmother power in Canada’s global aid
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40597542
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
V Iranian students’ sanctions-busting robot
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40650457/iranian-students-sanctions-busting-robot
Robot ‘drowns’ in fountain mishap (Washington DC)
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40642968
CULTURE (including LANGUAGE)
Lipstick under my Burkha: The film that was banned in India
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-40631458/lipstick-under-my-burkha-the-film-that-was-banned-in-india
Dunkirk: do Oscars beckon for Nolan’s war epic?
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40642050
What the Nureyev story tells us about today’s Russia
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40596929
TRAVEL
Cook Islander tops the world of coconut tree climbing
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-40629686
MISCELLANEOUS
V On the front line of Ukraine’s ceasefire
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-40638960/on-the-front-line-of-ukraine-s-ceasefire
V Saudi Arabia investigates video of woman in miniskirt
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40633687
Saudis grapple with fake street sweepers
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-40642463